Update: fellow algorithms researcher Francisco Claude just posted a great article about using lazy evaluation to solve Tic Tac Toe games in Common Lisp. Niki (my brother) also wrote a post using generators with asynchronous prefetching to hide IO latency. Worth a read I say! I’ve recently been obsessing over this programming idea called streams (also known as infinite lists or […]

This blog post is an introduction on how to make a key phrase extractor in Python, using the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK). But how will a search engine know what it is about? How will this document be indexed correctly? A human can read it and tell that it is about programming, but no search […]

I’m doing a project for a subject at RMIT which needs to manage thousands of patient records for a hospital. We haven’t been given any sample data though, so I wanted to write a generator (so we can test it with small or large data sets whenever needed). I started with the name generator (in […]